While studying Aikido, I became interested in Japanese design
and meditation. Japanese gardens combine the two. These
are photographs of a Japanese garden I built at my home while
Mount Holyoke College was building their meditation space. I
got ideas from them and various books.

Several years later, I went to Japan to visit the gardens
of Kyoto. I was happy to find that we had achieved the same feeling
of peace and quiet in very similar ways. The photograph on my
homepage is from the Moss Gardens in Kyoto.